David Van Deusen - Living Revolution in Vermont

the face of Revolution in Vermont, apparently

from Cyber Dandy

David Van Deusen is a longtime anarchist thinker, organizer, and militant union leader. He is the current president of the Vermont AFL-CIO. In this interview we have the privilege to hear Van Deusen's perspectives on past, current, and future revolutionary change.

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> union organization

*falls asleep*

Was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. This covers alot of the same ground as David's interview on IGD several years ago but enjoyed the talk especially about communes and other "ancient" history. Will try and catch next episode now!

It's a worthy interview, even tho I'm totally not in this guy or this organization's politics. This still seems like wooden talk even tho Van Deusen brought a more IRL perspective that at least we can connect to.

Like I didn't know about that event within NEFAC where they decided to take a communautarian stance, to the detriment of wildcat labor organizing. My guess is that the Quebec crowd (for its shitty crowd of bourgie anarcho-lefties that were very forthcoming when taking money from the State to finance their BS nonprofit bureaucracies), was responsible for pushing this, but that may be an oversimplification too.

Regardless, union organizing seems like a very thin and narrow perspective of anarchism. It's only addressing some aspect of daily life and fails to even ask deeper questions as to what anarchism means as a way of life, not just a way to do labor organizing against the bosses. That is where Emma Goldman and Co achieved something back in the days as workerist libcoms, as they more or less openly accepted how work ain't just workplace wage slavery, but a whole of slavish patterns of conducts and views that need to be overturned as per anarchy. Such was the case of Emma's stance for liberated love.

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